The paper deals with gender differences in achievement motivation of university students as well as searches for specific aspects of personality that participate in achievement motivation. At the same time it presents an overview of the number of differences found out by means of LMI methodology.

Our results indicate that males and females have about the same probability of being hired in a mixed pool of male and female applicants, independently of the type of vacancy. The probability of hiring a candidate of a certain sex is therefore determined by the gender composition of the pool of applicants who have selected themselves on the basis of job characteristics, hiring standards and the...

The present study aims to explore the differences between the interaction styles of Japanese men and women. The study specifically examines three interactional patterns as seen in a Japanese talk/variety show: interruptions, reactions to interruptions, and backchannels. The data are analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. In the quantitative analysis, interruptions, reactions to interru...

The potential effect of gender on intellectual abilities remains controversial. The purpose of this research was to analyze gender differences in cognitive test performance among children from continuous age groups. For this purpose, the normative data from 7 domains of the newly developed neuropsychological test battery, the Evaluación Neuropsicológica Infantil [Child Neuropsychological Assess...

AIMS This study examined gender differences among treatment-seeking cocaine-dependent outpatients (e.g., on demographics, psychopathology, and substance abuse). PARTICIPANTS Participants were 2376 adults with cocaine dependence entering a multisite randomized controlled trial of psychosocial therapies. FINDINGS Women, compared to men, had less severe lifetime substance use problems but a hi...

We thank the Office of the Provost of Michigan State University, in particular Dr. Robert F. Banks and Jeanne Kropp, for providing us with the data and for helpful advice. Useful comments on a draft were received at annual meetings of the Midwest and Western Economics Associations, and during a seminar at Michigan State University. Wei-Jang Huang, Rebecca Jacobs, Ella Lim, and Ellen Maloney pro...

This study examined gender differences in the affective, behavioural, and cognitive components of anger in 102 students completing their first year of high school. Results supported not only the hypothesis that girls and boys do not differ in their experience (affective) of anger but also the belief that girls are more likely to express positively (behavioural) their anger than boys. Additional...

This paper examines adaptation patterns among female scientists in Ghana, Kenya, and Kerala and compares their level of scientific participation with that of males. The author explores if the inhospitable occupational climate in industrialized nations is relatively advantageous for women scientists when compared to the Third World, where women may be especially vulnerable to deleterious scienti...

Evidence on the management of atherothrombotic diseases derives from clinical trials where women are usually underrepresented; however, it is well known that gender differences in the incidence and clinical presentation of cardiovascular diseases, and in the efficacy and safety of antithrombotic treatment exist. The pathophysiological mechanisms underlying these gender differences are not fully...

Gender Differences in Charitable Giving The predominant part of the literature states that women are more likely to donate to charitable causes but men are more generous in terms of the amount given. The last result generally derives from the focus on mean amount given. This paper examines gender differences in giving focusing on the distribution of amounts donated and the probability of giving...